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was shot on tlie Delaware on the 10th of March, al>^ 
presented to me hy Dr S. B. Smith of this city. 
dissection, it proved to be a male, and was exceeding ft* 
and tender. Almost every specimen I have since me* 
with has been in nearly the same state ; so that I canno* 
avoid thinking this species equal to most others for tb* 
table, and greatly superior to many. 
279 . AifAs CLAwacrzA, link.,eus and wii,son. — golden-ev*' 
WILSON, PLATE LXVII. FIG. VI. EDINBUIIGII COLLEGE SIlTSEl'^' 
' Ihis duck is well known in Europe, and in variou' 
regions of the United States, both along the sea coas' 
and about the lakes and rivers of the interior. 
associates in small parties, and may easily be known bf 
the vigorous whistling of its wings as it passes throng*' 
the air. It sivims and dives well, but seldom walb^ 
on shore, and then in a waddling, awkward manner* 
Feeding chielly on shell fish, small frv, &c. their desb 
is less esteemed than that of the preceding. In tb^ 
United States they are only winter visitors, leaving >'* 
again in the month of Ajiril, being then on their passage 
to the north to breed. They are said to build, like tbr 
wood duck, in hollow trees. 
The gohlen-ei-e is nineteen inches long, and twentf' 
nine in extent, and weighs on an average about t'’® 
pounds ; the bill is black, short, rising considerably ’’R 
in the forehead; the plumage of the head and part m 
the neck is somewhat tumid, and of a dark green, witb 
violet rellections, marked near the corner of the month I 
with an oval spot of white ; the irides are golden yelle'T ' i 
rest of the neck, breast, and whole lower parts, whit*’ 
except the Hanks, which are dusky ; back and wing*> 
black ; over the latter a broad bed of white extends fron* 
the middle of the lesser coverts to the extremity of tb® 
secondaries; the exterior scapulars are also white! 
tail, hoary brown ; rump and tail-covert,s, black ; Iwft 
and toes, reddish orange ; webs very large, and of a dark 
purplish brown ; hind toe and exterior edge of the innet 
